Alton Towers

Alton Tower in the UK has had a pretty bad time of it lately. a lot of this comes down to the incident with the Smiler Ride broke down and killed and maimed a lot of people.  The owners of the ride admitted liability and stated that they missed a lot of health and safety points on this matter.  This is not a good thing; statistically speaking you are safer on a park ride than you are on the journey to the park itself. So what can we gather from this accident?  Are there any further details that we can find?  Well, this is where the FoI Act comes in.  We can find some more information on this.

The Health and Safety Executive are the people who look after ALL health and safety issues in the United Kingdom. Whilst sometimes that can go a bit mad, The UK is considered a world leader in Health and safety matters. They are also subject to the Freedom of information act..  As a result we can ask them questions about Alton Towers...

So what has been found?  A direct ask for the report on the alton towers case produced nothing purely because it was an ongoing investigation and would unfairly bias people. Fair enough.  There are a lot of other request asking about this issue (Such as this, this, & this).

Does this mean that this is the end of the storey?  Of course not!  There are lots of things that we can look into on this matter. So what about the things that have to be looked into when making a Roller Coaster?  Already asked. This should give us some perspective on the development of a roller coaster.  What about, in context, other theme parks; how many of them have been investigated?  Again, already asked.

The thing is, this is an interesting one. It it a good thing that we can look at this issue and interesting that we can look at the inner working of the Health and Safety board.  It also makes us think about these places as well.  As in the case with the Smiler records, there should be a trace back of everything that they do/.  We shall now look into this in more depth to see what they have done wrong.  it also shows that we should be able to find more more about this in the fullness of time.

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